每日背誦第四期34
Though billiards had already been popular for more than 100 years at that time, Mingaud was the first person to round the end of a pool cue with a file and apply a leather tip to it. After prison, Mingaud promptly proved his invention's superiority over its flat, club-like predecessor in exhibitions throughout France. What the captain had developed was essentially the cue in use today, but the game he generated interest in did not involve shooting balls into pockets.
盡管當(dāng)時(shí)，臺球已盛行了百余年，而敏高德卻是第一個(gè)使用銼刀把球桿尾端磨圓，并用皮子包上的人。出獄后，在法 國的多次展覽會上，敏高德很快就證明他的新發(fā)明比原先那種平頭像球棍的球桿好用。上尉發(fā)明的球桿沿用至今，然而當(dāng)時(shí)他引發(fā)興趣的游戲，還未發(fā)展到將臺球擊進(jìn)球袋的階段。
(短文節(jié)選,本篇始于：臺球的沿革)
